Just wanted to highlight a couple of our recent finds at the library:
Kevin Henkes must like mice because as far as I know, that's what he writes about! But his little community of mice is as cute as can be and my kids love them.
Shelia Rae, the Brave is the first one we've picked up at the library, but they have a Scholastic DVD of 3 of this other stories -
Chrysanthemum, A Weekend with Wendell, and
Owen.
Shelia Rae, the Brave is about two sister mice - the older sister Shelia Rae is very brave! Her little sister Louise is quite timid. But when Shelia Rae gets lost, it is Louise who comes to her rescue and proves that she is actually pretty brave herself!
I like this book,
What Will Fat Cat Sit On? (by Jan Thomas), a lot more than I expected to. In fact, when we go to the library I sometimes weed out a few of our selections and discreetly return them in the drop box by the parking lot. The kid-friendly part of this book is that it is really funny and really simple at the same time - all I have to do to get my kids giggling is to say, "Sit on the Pig! Sit on the Pig!" But as a someone who taught first graders to read, I can see this book would be great for a kid in kindergarten or 1st grade to read on their own. Most of the words are short vowel words. Caleb knows most of his letter sounds and the short vowels, but hasn't been interested in stringing them all together (and that is fine with me), but he does have this book mostly memorized and I can see how, if he were personally inclined, he could connect what he knows the book says with the letters he does know and gain a little ground in reading.
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